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Summer Bloom

Sorcery

You may play up to three additional lands this turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Ninth Edition
Price
$1.83
EDHREC rank
#2830
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Summer Bloom card art
Summer Bloom drops up to three extra lands on turn one, generating a mana advantage that most one-mana spells can't approach. It lacks the graveyard recursion angle of Squandered Resources or the steady stream of free plays that Sergeant John Benton enables, but three lands into play for one green mana is simply a better deal than almost anything else at this cost.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern banned
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Summer Bloom is banned in Modern, where the combination of fetchlands and bounce lands like Simic Growth Chamber turned it into a reliable turn-two kill engine — too fast, too consistent, too little interaction required. Legacy and Vintage leave it legal but rarely prioritize it, since those formats have stronger degenerate options available. Commander gives it a clean pass: the singleton rule means you can't build the redundant land-return loops that made it broken in sixty-card formats, and a one-shot burst of three extra land drops is powerful but not backbreaking when spread across a 100-card game with four opponents.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sergeant John Benton

Sergeant John Benton

61.9% of decks · synergy 0.61

Sergeant John Benton's ability to copy noncreature spells means Summer Bloom can fire twice from a single cast, turning a three-land burst into a six-land turn and dramatically accelerating the battlefield presence the deck needs to outpace opponents.

02
Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

36.6% of decks · synergy 0.32

Flubs, the Fool cares about playing multiple cards and putting resources into play quickly, and Summer Bloom's ability to slam three lands in one shot fuels that early velocity better than conventional ramp.

03
Haldan, Avid ArcanistPako, Arcane Retriever

Haldan, Avid Arcanist // Pako, Arcane Retriever

34.9% of decks · synergy 0.30

Pako exiles cards from opponents' libraries, and Haldan lets you cast noncreature spells from exile — Summer Bloom sitting under Haldan's trigger is a free three-land burst off an opponent's deck, compounding the pair's inherent card-advantage engine.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$1.83 cheap tier

At $1.83, Summer Bloom sits comfortably in the cheap tier — you're paying almost nothing for a card that routinely generates three or more mana in a single turn. That price reflects its Commander-only demand post-Modern ban, which keeps it accessible without much upward pressure.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.